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deep tech The Register September 15, 2026

Open weights are not open source: Why AI's favorite label is under dispute

Open weights are not open source: Why AI's favorite label is under dispute
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The AI industry likes to abuse the word "open." It appears in product releases, research papers, policy debates, and investor presentations. A company publishes model files to Hugging Face, developers run them on their own GPUs, and the release is quickly described as an "open source model." Not necessarily. The difference is more than a technicality.

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